United States national cricket team

I think it was pretty, so the backstory to it was 2013 to 2016, when did I make my debut? 2017.

2013 to 2017, USA Cricket was suspended for almost four years.

So they had not played any cricket.

So women or men cricketers.

So we were playing all of these opens to continue just keeping cricket in our lives.

So I had played so much cricket by then for three to four years.

And with this group of cricketers, like women cricketers who had kept the sport alive, even though the USA cricket was suspended.

that I had built that network within the team already.

But I saw a ton of people that identified as Washington fans.

not as India fans, not as, you know, even Team USA fans, but as folks that were there to see Washington play.

And then when we were at the semis, you know, a couple of days before, right, it was the SF Unicorn.

So, you know, you're locals, right? People were super thrilled about that.

Yeah.

I think it's, in cricket at least, it's national teams.

And let's talk a little bit about what Team USA has been up to because they've actually got a very exciting October coming up.

Yeah, so Team USA, and again, a lot of those Team USA folks were out on the MLC pitches.

Once upon a time, he was India's highest wicket-taker at the 2010 Under-19 World Cup.

Cut to now, he's the left-arm medium pacer who helped Team USA stunt Pakistan at the World Cup, ice-coldly holding his nerve in the historic super-over that put American cricket on the map.

Off the pitch, he's a consulting member of technical staff at Oracle.

A vegan athlete, spirituality, yoga, consistency and deep discipline are what define him.

I originate from India.

There is some loyalties around that.

When Team USA started winning, thousands of Americans started putting USA jerseys for the first time.

What was that feel like?